[Libvir] Ruby bindings for libvirt

[Meng Kuan]

Hi,

I am exploring the possibility of creating ruby bindings for libvirt.  
The only attempt I found after some searching is this:

   http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ckrintz/racelab/jisha/

Following the SWIG method as described in the above URL, I have  
gotten to the following point:

   [root at dell1 libvirt_ruby]# irb
   irb(main):001:0> require 'libvirt_ruby'
   => true
   irb(main):002:0> conn = Libvirt_ruby.virConnectOpenReadOnly("")
   => #<SWIG::TYPE_p__virConnect:0x2aaaaabc46c8>
   irb(main):003:0>  dom = Libvirt_ruby.virDomainLookupByID(conn, 0)
   => #<SWIG::TYPE_p__virDomain:0x2aaaaabb5df8>
   irb(main):004:0> ret = Libvirt_ruby.virDomainGetInfo(dom, info)
   NameError: undefined local variable or method `info' for main:Object
           from (irb):4
   irb(main):005:0>

I am not sure how to create and pass in a ptr to a virDomainInfo  
struct object into the virDomainGetInfo call within ruby.

Note that I was trying to following the info1.c example on the  
libvirt website:

   http://libvirt.org/examples/info1.c

As you can tell, this is the first time I am trying to create any  
sort of language bindings for a C library.

Some questions:

1. Is there a better way of creating ruby bindings for libvirt  
besides SWIG? If so, any pointers on what should be done?

2. Alternatively I can try to make my ruby code use libvirt-python  
bindings as a python library. Has anyone done so? Any problems with  
this approach?

cheers,
mengkuan